1st Edition

Kant’s Inferentialism The Case Against Hume

By David Landy Copyright 2015
320 Pages
by Routledge

320 Pages
by Routledge

320 Pages
by Routledge

Kant’s Inferentialism draws on a wide range of sources to present a reading of Kant’s theory of mental representation as a direct response to the challenges issued by Hume in A Treatise of Human Nature . Kant rejects the conclusions that Hume draws on the grounds that these are predicated on Hume’s theory of mental representation, which Kant refutes by presenting objections to Hume’s... Read more

Introduction  1. Hume’s Theory of Mental Representation  2. Two Objections to Hume’s Theory of Mental Representation  3. The A-Deduction and the Nature of Intuitions  4. The Object of Representation  5. Self and World in the Analogies of Experience  6. The Inferential Self  Postscript of Transcendental Idealism

Biography

David Landy is Associate Professor of Philosophy at San Francisco State University, USA

"The author offers interesting and illuminating analyses of this or that portion of Kant's project, and he often explains difficult material lucidly. The work is imaginative, and Landy is not afraid to take positions that are unpopular." --Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

"For a reader who likes Sellars and Kant and good, jargon-free Kant-exegesis combining philosophical plausibility and exegetical novelty, this book is highly recommended." --Thomas Vinci in Kantian Review